Samuikaze Ran

Samuikaze Ran is one of understudies of 150th generation. Due to being cold and not close to any of her fellow members she's often been nicknamed Samui, which means cold and comes from her surname.

Appearance
Ran has very long brown hair that is tied in high ponytail. Her eyes are dark blue. The outfit she usually wears is blue shirt and black trouser but she also has many other clothes. She is always wearing bracelet she got from her brother before she went to AKB0048 auditions.

Personallity
Ran is a bit cold and prefers doing things alone. She doesn't trust people with exception of her older brother. She loves singing and dancing and is serious about her practice and becoming part of AKB0048 and often thinks that some of the others aren't working hard enough. She often says rude things to others, even if she doesn't want to and didn't mean it that way. Despite her cold personallity, Ran is deep inside herself actually very kind and sometimes a bit lonely but she keeps distance from other girls as she is afraid of trusting them and also because she believes it might distract her from her goal. As of SC0126 Ran never showed her kinder side to any of the members.

History
Ran was born on Kanashistar one of planets with most strict entertainment ban. She was born to very rich family. Her mother died when she was 6 years old and her father never cared for her so only person she could always trust was her older brother Ryuu. He was the one who always helped her and took care of her.

Encountering AKB0048
One day when Ran was 9 years old, AKB0048 held secret live on Kanashistar. As Ryuu already heard AKB once before she thought Ran might like them and since their father is against AKB0048 they sneaked out of house to listen to them. Concert was attacked by DES. When Ran saw this girls singing, dancing and fighting she thought of them as most beautiful and brave thing she ever seen and decided she'll once join them. As she was growing up she was always practicing and had many arguments with her father about AKB. When auditions for 150th generation were open Ran decided to take them even though her father was against it. When he noticed that he tried to stop her but Ryuu helped her escape so she could go there. At that time he gave her bracelet for luck.

Auditions for 150th generation
Ran wasn't surprised when she heard that audition will be battle and thought that all girls who thought so didn't really understand what is AKB0048. She passed audition and became part of 150th generation.

SC0123 - SC0126
Even after becoming a member, Ran always stayed away from her fello members and didn't become close to any of them. She kept her distance and never called any of her fellow members by first name.

Auditions for 152nd generation
Ran was eating lunch at same table as Itano Tomoko and Shino Hoshina but she didn't talk to them. Tomoko and Hoshina both left and until the end of lunch Ran was sitting alone which she liked.

SC0126
After a prank that made all members believe that Kashita Miyagi died Ran suddenly started to feel guilty about not trying to be closer to any of fellow members. She never talked to Miyagi much and regreted that she'll never have a chance to get to know her better and she felt really guilty about not visiting her when she was in hospital. She started to realise that she should try to be kinder to others but old habbits die hard and she was unsure on how to suddenly start acting differently. Ran was completely shocked when it was revealed that Miyagi's death was just a prank, espeicially since she realised that her relooking at her life happened because of a prank - not a really emotinal event as she thought earlier. Despite that she still decided to be slightly nicer to other girls excluding Miyagi and Honoka with whom she ended being even meaner than before as she was so angry with them.

Team History
150th Generation → 150th Generation & Team 00 → 150th Generation & Team K

Relationships

 * -| Family =

Samuikaze Ryuu - Ran's older brother and the person she is closest too. From young age Ryuu was always the person Ran trusted the most and the one who took care of her. He is the one who introduced Ran to AKB0048. He helped her run away from home to get to 150th generation auditions and got into big trouble with their father because of that. Before Ran left he gave her a braclet for good luck which Ran wears all the time. Ran and Ryuu exchange a lot of e-mails however lately they can't do it as often due to their father checking on Ryuu a lot due to his suspicion of Ryuu's contact with his sister.

Samuikaze Hiromi - Ran's father who is strongly against entertainment and helps DES. He was against Ran taking auditions and tried to stop her. He was furious with Ryuu for helping her. He was never a good father to Ran and Ryuu not taking care of them and being abusive to them. He is trying to catch Ryuu when he is writing to Ran as he doesn't want them to have any contact.

|-|150th Generation =

Inoue Megumi - Fellow Kenkyuusei and one of her roommates.

Takanashi Yukari - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Hoshimiya Aoi - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Hoshikawa Rei - Fellow Kenkyuusei. After their talk at cupcake party Rei seems to be the first person that Ran is warming up to even though she denies it.

Ito Hotaru - Fellow Kenkyuusei. Ran is annoyed by her attempts to befriend her but some small part of her actually likes it.

Hikami Yumeko - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Itano Tomorin - Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Harune Diamond - Fellow Kenkyuusei and one of her roommates.

Taiyamoto Akano - Fellow Kenkyuusei.


 * -|151st Generation =

Asahina Miru - Kouhai.
 * -|152nd Generation =

Itano Tomoko - Kouhai.

Aozora Kokone - Kouhai.

Honda Hibiki - Kouhai.

Tsubasa Diana - Kouhai.

Makori Ririka - Kouhai.

|-|153rd Generation =

Mion Espoir - Kouhai.

Emily Silver - Kouhai.

Ryuuzaki Miyoko - Kouhai.

Nakahara Monica - Kouhai.

Masaki Amarie - Kouhai.

Amaya Jia - Kouhai.

|-|153.5th Generation =

Akiba Airi - Kouhai.

Hatsune Hikari - Kouhai.

Ikeda Itsuki - Kouhai.

|-|154th Generation =

Kasumi Yuuna - Kouhai.

Ayana Elise - Kouhai.

Kobayashi Griselda - Kouhai.

MoYoung Marian - Kouhai.

Itou Haruki - Kouhai.

Tomone Kaoru - Kouhai.

|-|154.5th Generation =

Nishimura Karin - Kouhai.

Murasaki Aoi - Kouhai.

Nagase Yuuri - Kouhai.

Koizumi Ayaka - Kouhai.

Shiratama Mayu - Kouhai.

Natsuki Hotaru - Kouhai.

LaLa Rue - Kouhai.

|-|155th Generation =

Tobina Riko - Kouhai.

Kumotani Julie - Kouhai.

Chiba Miku - Kouhai.

Mizu Kaguya - Kouhai.

Lee Hana - Kouhai.

Chizu Snow - Kouhai.

Yokoyama Asuna - Kouhai.

Ogawa Norah - Kouhai.

Kamiyama Mako - Kouhai.

Sengawa Kagome - Kouhai.

Kaname Reina - Kouhai.

Kawano Namia - Kouhai.

Tachibana Elisabeth - Kouhai.

Yozora Yoko - Kouhai.

Arisugawa Mikoto - Kouhai.

Amuro Yuhane - Kouhai.

Angelica Bianchi - Kouhai.


 * -|Successors =

Akimoto Sayaka the 15th - Kouhai

Yokoyama Yui the 13.5th - Kouhai.

Takahashi Minami the 7th - Fellow understudy before she became a successor.

Kuramochi Asuka the 13th - Kouhai.

Sashihara Rino the 11th - Kouhai.

Shimazaki Haruka the 11th - Kouhai.

Kodama Haruka the 8th - Kouhai.

Ikuta Erika the 11th - Kouhai.

Eguchi Aimi the 4th - Kouhai.

Hirate Yurina the 7th - Kouhai.

Nakai Rika the 15th - Kouhai.

Minegishi Minami the 7th - Kouhai.

Matsui Jurina the 8th - Kouhai.

Watanabe Mayu Type 5 - Kouhai.

|-|Graduates =

Kagawa Sayuri - Formerly Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Shibuya Komari - Formerrly Fellow Kenkyuusei.

Shino Hoshina - Kouhai.

Ashley Snow - Kouhai.

Suzuno Natsuki - Formerly Fellow Kenkyuusei

Suzuno Sakura - Formerly Fellow Kenkyuusei.
 * -|Staff =

Motomiya Hikari - AKB0048's manager and producer.

Kuroki Erika - AKB0048's presenter.

Hashimoto Ayumi - AKB0048's dance teacher.

Akiyama Tamotsu - AKB0048 dorms' janitor.

Akamine Kazuto - AKB0048's vocal instructor.

Shirokami Yuki - AKB00480's designer.

Etymology
寒い風  -  Samui (寒い) means "cold" and kaze (風) means "wind".

蘭 - Ran (蘭) means "orchid".

Achievements

 * -|Senbatsu Sousenkyo=
 * Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0123 - Not Ranked
 * Senbatsu Sousenkyo SC 0124 - Not Ranked


 * -|Janken Taikai=
 * Janken Taikai SC 0123 -


 * -|Lucky Ranking=
 * SC0125 - #28

Trivia

 * So far Rei has never called any of her fellow members by their given name. She always calls them by surname without any suffixes.